Word: kesten
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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CHILDREN OF GUERNICA - Hermann Kesten-Alliance ($2.50). On April 26, 1937, a row comes to a head in the large Espinosa family of Guernica, Spain; Uncle Pablo, the black sheep, mocks his kindly brother for his liberalism in the civil war; son and daughter are innocently involved in the murder of an anarchist leader; Father Espinosa cannot sell his chemist's shop and escape to France. German bombers sailing overhead end the family row and the Basque city of Guernica at the same time. Young Carlos escapes to Paris where he tells his powerful, grim story to German refugee...